Page 16 University Daily Kansas Friday, April 15, 1937
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IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK—Dick Lockhart, Norwich senior, is doing more than playing with little brother's toys. He's arranging the trucks needed in exploring oil by a seismograph. The truck on the left contains the seismograph which records sound waves. The drilling truck on the right will add a touch of realism
to the model exhibit by actually drilling shot holes. The pickup truck has carried to the scene the survey party, consisting of two miniature men who survey the shot holes. The entire geological engineering exhibit depicts how a seismic field crew operates in the quest for oil.
Every Oilman Needs One Of These
When the average person hears the word seismograph, he usually thinks of measuring earthquakes, thus never considering that the seismograph has a very great economic importance; it is the chief instrument used to find oil.
The geologist's engineering department's exhibit, entitled "seismic exploration and its importance," attempts to show how the seismoraph is used and how it finds oil.
The display is composed of four sections, each containing one division or part of a seismic field crew in action. All sections are composed of scale working models.
In actual operation, a hole is drilled in the ground in the general area where it is believed there is a possibility of oil. Then dynamite is placed in the holes and set off.
Geophones (delicate instruments stuck in the ground to measure the speed of sound waves as they come from the blast and bounce off rock layers under the earth) are strung on two sides of the holes.
Because oil is usually found in pockets caused by the rock layer's bowing, the speed of the sound bouncing off the layers is an indication of whether the layers might contain oil.
The exhibit explains and demonstrates the necessary sequences in this action.
The first section is the survey party, which surveys the shot holes. This will consist of a pickup truck and two miniature men operating surveying instruments.
The second section is the drill party which drills the shot holes. This will consist of one drilling truck (actually drilling), one water
Sets of Charges
truck and several miniature men.
The third section is the recording party. It consists of a shooting truck which sets off charges in the shot hole and a recording truck containing a seismograph which records the sound waves generated by the charge, and several miniature workmen.
The last section of the display will contain an analysis of the information obtained from the three preceding sections. Included in this will be a seismograph, contour maps, cross section maps and all information pertaining to an interpretation of the area of investigation.
Parts of the actual equipment used in the field, such as the geophones and the seismic (seismograph) will be on demonstration also to give persons details which cannot be shown in the model.
Teamwork Role In Design Exhibit
The industrial design exhibit in the exoskeleton this year centers around the idea of "Progress through Teamwork."
"The field of industrial design is dedicated to the creation of development of products for mass manufacture which are assured of wide public acceptance before large amounts of capital investment are made," said William D. Wolfe, Lawrence junior and chairman of the exhibit.
"In order to accomplish this end," he continued, "the close cooperation of the designer, engineer, manufacturer and merchandiser are necessary. Our exhibit is directed at this cooperation."
The exhibit will show the development of ideas from their beginnings as rough sketches to their completion as working models.
Some of the models designed and built by students include modern chairs, electric razors, a U.S. post office mailing cart for local mailmen, and three dimensional space studies.
Drawings of some modern furniture designs that won honorable mention in a national contest also will be shown.
Roger M. English, instructor of design, said the department is very pleased to be a part of the exposition.
"We are a part of the Fine Arts School, but our work is very closely allied with the engineering field. Therefore, it is good experience for the student in designing to work with the engineering side of industry."
Honorary Law Group One Of First In U.S.
Order of the Coif, honorary law raternity, was founded in 1902 to oster a spirit of careful study and o mark in a fitting manner those who have attained a high grade of scholarship . . ."
The order takes its name from the word used to designate the cap which, in earlier times, all members of the order were compelled to wear. The cap, or coif, was originally of white lawn or silk, forming a close-fitting hood, to be seen today in old engravings, pictures, and effigies of distinguished judges and sergeants.
In addition, the chapter annually elects from the senior class several persons to membership. These students are in the upper tenth of their class, and must have at least a 2.0 grade average.
KU's chapter, one of 43 organized in the law schools of the United States which maintain high standards of scholarship, includes all the faculty members of the School of Law.
2.0 Average Needed
Members of the legal profession who have attained distinction also may be elected to honorary membership, with one allowed a year for each chapter. At KU, this is usually done on Law Day, which this year will be held in May.
Five Job Offers Per Senior
The American Order of the Coif is the outgrowth of an earlier society known as Theta Kappa Nu. This society was founded at the University of Illinois in 1902 for the purpose of promoting scholarship among American law students. It had a slow growth and in 1910, had only six chapters.
HOBOKEN, N.J.--(IP)—A record number of companies are sending representatives to the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology this year for the annual eight-week interview program. A total of 280 companies have offered Stevens' 174 seniors about five jobs each.
In the meantime, there had been organized at the Law School of Northwestern University a local society having the same object. This society adopted the present name. The desirability of affiliating with a national organization led the undergraduate members of the Order of the Coif in 1910 to accept a charter from the Theat Kappa Nu.
The English Order of the Coif was the most ancient and one of the most honored institutions of the common law. It is thought by some that it probably antedated the Norman Conquest; in any event it was more ancient than Westminster Hall or the oldest of the English courts in which the common law of England, as we know it, was fashioned.
Birthplace In Illinois
Since that time the growth of the society into 43 chapters has been as rapid as the maintenance of high standards of scholarship would permit.
Ground was broken for construction of Gary, Ind., April 27, 1906 by the U. S. Steel Corp.
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